Yeshica Weerasekera

Yeshica Weerasekera is International Forum on Globalization's Deputy Director for Management, Finance and Operations and has over twenty years of experience "with a diverse number of public sector, philanthropic and non-profit organizations in the United States, the U.K. and West Africa. She has wide-ranging experience in projects and program management, grants development and management, as well as financial and office administration. Born and raised in Sri Lanka, Yeshica worked for six years in several West African countries as the local Sahel Representative for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, as well as with Oxfam America, and RADI, a community-based non-profit organization in Senegal. After moving back to the U.S. she served as the Africa Program Director at International Development Exchange, as a Projects Coordinator at the Tides Center and most recently as Program Manager for Changemakers, an organization that supports and promotes community-based philanthropy."